The Elastrator, the Mountain Oysters, and Other Benefits of Farm Life

Once upon a time, there was a farm just outside Durham, North Carolina, where…

A Streak of Lean, a Streak of Fat

The Great Bacon Catastrophe When I was a young kid on the farm in…

The Customers Who Bought My Product and Wouldn’t Use the Damned Thing

For a number of years I made my living trying to help accountants market…

Jukeboxes, Mortgages, and Bright Shiny Wallboxes

There was this young fellow named Red sitting in a restaurant in Killeen, Texas,…

How Was Red Supposed to Know?

Once upon a time, which in this case means sometime around the early 1950s,…

Welcome to The Old Gits Website

I am eighty-four years old, and for as long as I can remember, ideas…